1. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) In a small boat floating on the river.
(b) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(c) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(d) At the central place inside the treehouse.

2. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Yae is sitting in a plane which is on its way to Istanbul.
(b) Yae is sitting by the man-made pool in his backyard.
(c) Yae is sitting in his treehouse, forty feet above the Kronkel river.
(d) Yae is sitting in the hospital where his wife is dying in childbirth.

3. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.
(b) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.
(c) To drink it with a straw-like tool made of sago leaves.
(d) The river water must never be drunk. It is full of germs.

4. What is the Eren ceremony?
(a) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.
(b) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(c) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.
(d) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.

5. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?
(a) The diesel engines of the Dutch military boats.
(b) The large migration of birds which flew overhead.
(c) The song of a lark at break of day.
(d) The explosion of a nuclear bomb.